Upgrade / new build suggestions

paulb567

paulb567

paulb567

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My machine is 3-4 years old now and getting pretty sluggish running Windows 7.

I'm looking to upgrade and was wonder what were the fairly standard mid-range components. The machines primary use will be software development / general desktop applications. Not planning on using this machine for gaming at the moment.

The more memory the better as running a couple of instances of Eclipse, Oracle & Weblogic soon eats available memory.

Machines current specs. are...

Gigabyte 965P-DS3P
Intel Core 2 - 6600 @ 2.4GHz
ATI Radeon X1900 Series (512MB)
320GB ST3320620AS HDD
Corsair HX520W Power supply.
Big black case of some description.
Dell 2005FPW Monitor

I'm thinking of reusing the case, power supply and graphics card leaving just the MB, CPU, memory and HDD to replace.

I think I'm going to replace the old Dell monitor with 2 x Dell 2209WA. Anyone got anything good or bad to say about this choice?

Thanks :)
 
To be honest, the spec you have should be fine for the type of applications you're running and should be able to improve things with out spending a penny.

It may be that your PC could do with a spring clean.. Use CCleaner.. remove any unwanted startup applications and clean the registry. Eusing is good for this.

You can read my full guide here

http://www.huddysworld.co.uk/index....pvista&catid=41:techiw-talk-windows&Itemid=73

In addition that CPU is built for Overclocking with very small changes in the BIOS. 3GHz should be easily reached in minutes for a signifcant boost.

Finally, you haven't mentioned your RAM.. Speed and capacity?
 
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another good too for cleaning is combofix, I use it a lot and is a really good way of getting rid of unwanted apps and generally speeding things up

Stelly
 
Thanks for the replies.

Whoops, sorry forgot to mention the RAM. It's currently got 2GB of Geil something or other, I'd have to wait until later to look inside to see exactly what speed it is, it was bought 3 1/2 years ago and was probably £150ish mid-range at the time.

I image the 2GB is the bottle neck and I'd benefit significantly from going to 6 or 8GB?

The current install of Win 7 Pro is only a few weeks old so I don't think I've accumilated all that much crap to warrant CCleaner or similar just yet.

Thanks :)
 
If I were to decide to add some additional memory to my machine do I need to be careful of the exact specs. of the new memory?

E.g I believe the 2x1GB set of Geil run at 4-4-4-12 @ 800

If I were to add the 4GB on offer this week (OCZ Titanium 4GB (2x2GB) Edition DDR2 PC2-6400 Dual Channel (OCZ2T800C44GK)) which are 4-4-4-15 would this cause a problem?

Thanks :)
 
Not at all! You would notice a nice performance boost and everything within Windows 7 should feel a lot more fluid and smooth with 4GB RAM.. ;)
 
Thanks, not sure if I made myself clear. I meant would it matter if I added the additional 4GB (2x2GB DDR2 pair) to the original 2GB (2x1GB DDR2 pair). Is it OK to have 2 pairs of memory by different manufacturers and different sizes or would I have to have 4 identical sticks to have it function correctly?

:)
 
You would then be operating with 6GB of RAM.. Which is perfectly fine even with odd sticks, however I think they may lose dual channel performance.. Not too sure, someone else may have to chime in on this one.. :)
 
Im gonna give all the stuff on your site a try Admiral Huddy as my laptop has been slowing down abit latly XD. Thanks a lot for the good info.
 
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